Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion How accurate is Mountain Forecast?

The NOAA website will probably give a "reasonably accurate" forecast, leaving wiggle room for local variations. Case in point: the forecast given yesterday for the Eastern Sierra, from NOAA, changed somewhat after a few hours of computer assisted deliberation.

In the USAF, we called our met guys "weather guessers". A retired Air Force met man friend of mine is often skeptical of some forecasters, who might have a hidden agenda...like bringing the skiers to mountain X in hopes of Big Snow. He calls those forecasts "ravings of a diseased mind". LOL.

The moral of the story is one needs to be ready for whatever the mountains give us in terms of weather.